The AMC 2021 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Forum was held as scheduled in Jinan on December 22–23. Key themes of the event covered the development and design of intelligent commercial vehicles (trucks), comfortable cabins, chassis and frames, painting, final assembly, powertrain assembly and testing, intelligent logistics, and the creation of intelligent, automated, and digital commercial vehicle factories.
The emergence of new powertrain systems, the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, and the explosive growth of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) are driving a massive transformation in the commercial vehicle market, making industry transformation a hot topic. As a provider of 3D industrial inspection solutions, XTOP3D attracted significant attention at the event, where it showcased its proprietary 3D inspection solutions tailored for the automotive industry.
At the conference, an XTOP3D regional sales manager delivered a keynote speech titled "Applications of 3D Optical Inspection Technology in the Automotive Industry." The presentation explored the role of 3D measurement technology in automotive manufacturing—particularly in quality inspection and product development—while also discussing inspection processes and future technological trends.
3D Optical Metrology Adds New Momentum to the Automotive Industry
As the world's largest producer and consumer of automobiles, my country boasts a potential consumer base of nearly one billion people, with annual production and sales volumes projected to exceed 30 million vehicles by 2025. The rapid growth in vehicle ownership has directly driven an increase in the volume of automotive inspections; the market size for automotive inspection in my country is expected to approach 70 billion RMB by 2025.
In the realm of automotive manufacturing inspection, components present significant challenges—such as complex shapes, numerous curved surfaces, intricate hole patterns, and complex contours—that demand quality control methods offering high precision, high efficiency, and intuitive results. Xintuo 3D offers industrial-grade solutions based on its proprietary product series, covering the entire lifecycle of automotive manufacturing.
3D Optical Metrology Facilitates High-Quality Automotive Manufacturing
3D optical metrology plays a vital role across every core stage of the new automotive product lifecycle—from product design and prototyping, material performance testing and simulation, and the inspection of stamping, forging, and injection molds, to automotive welding, vehicle assembly inspection, and the inspection of automotive piping systems, all the way through to final product quality inspection.
Automated Inspection of Automotive Bent Tube Parts
The manufacturing of automotive bent tubes requires automated processing based on design specifications such as curvature, bending angles, outer diameter, and wall thickness. The XTOP3D Tube Qualify measurement system can be directly integrated into the CNC tube bending process to calibrate machine parameters and optimize operations; this ensures production quality while enabling quantifiable and traceable data.
Automotive Design and Component Dimensional Inspection
Product design, development, and quality inspection constitute a highly complex process. From initial design sketches, clay modeling, structural adjustments, and assembly testing to quality inspection and mass production, every stage is critical to a new product's successful market entry. XTOP3D optical measurement technology is utilized in automotive design and development to achieve digitalization and high precision in vehicle design.
钣金件偏差检测
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Material Property Testing and Simulation
3D optical non-contact measurement methods enable the assessment of material mechanical properties under diverse experimental conditions. By integrating with various testing machines and test rigs, these systems facilitate 3D full-field strain and deformation measurements on rigid or soft automotive materials across a range of loading scenarios, offering real-time measurement, calculation, and output capabilities.
3D optical full-field strain measurement technology can be applied to mechanical property testing of new energy materials, battery pack puncture, battery crash and impact testing, thermal deformation analysis, and battery casing dimensional inspection, as well as to the validation of finite element analysis and simulations, thereby ensuring the quality and stability of battery products.
Engine start-up vibration test
Car Door Opening/Closing Test
Three-dimensional deformation of the axle under load
As the automotive industry evolves, new manufacturers and novel powertrain technologies are disrupting the sector, driving the emergence of electrification, intelligent systems, and shared mobility. Automotive inspection technologies are simultaneously undergoing a transformation—shifting from offline to online, from sampling to 100% inspection, from 2D to 3D, from localized to holistic assessment, and from manual processes to automation and intelligence. Xintuo 3D focuses on the inspection needs of the automotive manufacturing industry, providing industrial-grade 3D inspection solutions to vehicle manufacturers and component developers.
